岂不是把你当了苦力
“wouldn't that be taking advantage of you?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
留在这儿
“alone,”
岂不是把你当了苦力
“wouldn't that be taking advantage of you?”
况且啊
“Besides,”
“I care about you too much to just use you as cheap labor.”
Chinese interpersonal etiquette values anticipating and deflecting impositions on friends or loved ones rather than bluntly accepting assistance at their expense.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
wouldn't that be / doesn't that mean
A classic rhetorical pattern used to point out an undesirable or absurd consequence.
to treat someone as coolie/hard manual labor
Common spoken idiom used when someone is being made to do exhausting, unglamorous chores.
Functions here as an aspect marker indicating that the action of treating someone as labor has been realized in this hypothetical situation.
